Prepare for Battle: Lionheart: Kings’ Crusade Goes Gold

NEW YORK– September 30, 2010– Assemble your armies and prepare for an invasion. Developer Neocore Games today announced the development of the real-time strategy game, Lionheart: Kings’ Crusade, has completed. Lionheart: Kings’ Crusade is created by the developers of King Arthur: The Role-PlayingWargame and Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come.

In celebration of the completion, a new gameplay trailer has been released showcasing the might of the Lionheart Crusaders. Command archers, ballistas, footmen and mounted knights with superior tactics to defeat your foe.

Lionheart: Kings’ Crusade invites players to rewrite history through controlling and upgrading leaders and their armies, guiding various historical factions through political events, collecting relics, and unlocking new content in a feature-rich campaign set to take on the strategy genre by force.

Scheduled for release on October 8th, Lionheart: Kings’ Crusade will be published worldwide by Paradox Interactive. The PC title will also be available for digital download on all leading digital distribution platforms.

Founded in 2008, Neocore Games aims to develop high quality products. Developers of Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come and King Arthur: The Role-PlayingWargame, Neocore Games utilizes its Coretech 3D engine to offer stable and strong technology to deliver the best in-game graphics of the industry. For more on Neocore Games, visit www.neocoregames.com

About Paradox Interactive

Since 1999, Paradox Interactive has been a leading global developer and publisher of PC-based strategy games. World-renowned for its strategy catalog, the company holds a particularly strong presence in the United States and Europe. Its steadily-growing portfolio includes originally developed titles such as the critically acclaimed Europa Universalis and the Hearts of Iron franchises, as well as publishing titles such as the Elven Legacy series, Mount&Blade and Majesty 2. Paradox made an explosive entry onto consoles during 2010 with the release of Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West. For more information, please visit www.paradoxplaza.com and follow http://twitter.com/PdxInteractive

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